Marion's path to Urban Grind was not linear — and that is exactly what makes her perspective so valuable. After building a distinguished career in Fortune 500 consulting, leading multi-million dollar client engagements, managing teams across global organizations, and being recognized as MVP at a national consulting firm — she hit a wall that performance reviews and promotions could not fix.

Burnout. The kind that does not resolve with a vacation. And then the loss of her father — someone she believes could still be here today if he had been given tools to heal his body rather than just manage his symptoms.

Those two experiences became the foundation of everything Urban Grind stands for. Marion left corporate America not because she failed at it, but because she finally understood what success was actually supposed to feel like — and she wanted to help others find that too.

Today Marion leads Urban Grind's operations, strategy, business development, and systems. She works with a select group of high-level clients personally, and brings the same precision, accountability, and strategic thinking that defined her corporate career to elevating something she is genuinely passionate about.

Marcus has wanted to build this his entire life and the path that led him here started with loss. Growing up in a food desert where healthy habits were not the norm, he lost his cousin and mentor at 29 to congestive heart failure. Marcus was 19. That loss shaped everything.

He went on to study Health and Exercise Science, became a personal trainer, and eventually became the number one Personal Training Director at one of the largest national fitness organizations in the country. But what he saw inside that corporate fitness world frustrated him deeply — generic programs, short-term thinking, sales targets prioritized over real client outcomes. The system was treating the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle without ever asking why.

After six years of 16-hour days, Marcus walked away from the corporate structure to do the work the right way. He combined his training expertise with his certification as a life coach and began building the approach that would eventually become Urban Grind — a system focused on sustainable habits, root cause resolution, and whole-person transformation.

Marcus leads all programming, Trainerize platform management, and client coaching at Urban Grind. Every workout, every nutrition framework, every habit protocol that goes into our programs has been designed and refined by him over 25 years of real-world coaching experience.